In honor of International Swarm today, I’ve decided to share with you a little piece of Crawlspace Podcast History. All those (however many) years ago, when we were talking about the Spider-Man Broadway musical on the show and Swarm’s appearance in it, I first exclaimed, “He’s a Nazi skeleton covered in bees!” (or something to that effect). And I just assumed folks got that my delivery of the “covered in bees!” part was inspired by the Eddie Izzard joke. But it’s come to my attention that not everyone has seen Eddie Izzard’s hilarious stand-up comedy special “Glorious.” I know, right?! So, for those of you that are celebrating International Swarm Day at home with your loved ones, I present to you a classic in bee comedy and a part of behind-the-scenes Crawlspace Podcast history (CAUTION: Some profanity herein):
You might be interested in …
Podcast #491 New Miles Movie, Red Goblin, Disney Buys Fox, PS4 Spidey
by Brad Douglas
We tackle spider-news in this episode. News topics include: *Disney Buys Fox-Zach *Who is the Red Goblin? -JR *Slott’s run ending with ASM 800? -George *Mile’s new name? Ghost Spider for Gwen? -MIke *PS4 Spider-Man […]
Spider-Man Spotlight on Attack of the Show
by Brad Douglas
Video Game – E3 2011 – Fresh Ink
4 Comments
Leave a Reply
Crawlspace Discord

Social
Recent Comments
Hornacek on MARCO SPEAKS SPIDEY: Amazing Spider-Man/Venom: Death Spiral – Body Count #1 REVIEW: “Yeah, the entire Death Spiral hinted that there was a connection between Torment and Venom (and Spidey). I read 9…” May 15, 06:01
Bill Slattery III on Spider-Tracer: Top Ten Spider-Man Characters Co-Created by Gerry Conway: “@Hornacek Fixed the apartment complex issue; thanks!” May 14, 20:51
Evan Berry on MARCO SPEAKS SPIDEY: Amazing Spider-Man/Venom: Death Spiral – Body Count #1 REVIEW: “It seems weird to me that in Venom #255 (Death Spiral #3), upon being approached by Eddie Brock after killing…” May 14, 08:25
Faiz on Read’s Reads Amazing Spider-Man #28/992: “I was sad to read in the letters page about John Romita JR stepping away from ASM. It did seem…” May 12, 11:01
Hornacek on Spider-Tracer: Top Ten Spider-Man Characters Co-Created by Gerry Conway: ““Glory Grant was J. Jonah Jameson’s secretary for years, and even lived in the same apartment as Peter Parker for…” May 12, 06:11
Treyvon Williams on Spider-Variants of the Week 5/13/26: “I love that avengers variant cover homage to avengers: age of ultron 2015 movie poster.” May 11, 20:20
Hornacek on Read’s Reads Amazing Spider-Man FCBD 2026 Review: “When I saw The Answer I thought at first he’d be treated like a joke, when Slott brought back F.A.C.A.D.E.…” May 7, 12:58
Evan Berry on Craig’s Critique: Amazing Spider-Man #27 (Legacy #991): “The Real Torment Was The Ending” or “MJ Lets Torment Go”: “@Hornacek – I definitely remember that story. It was The Last Temptation of Eddie Brock from 2007, part of the…” May 7, 07:27
adam coppola on MARCO SPEAKS SPIDEY- Marvel/DC: Spider-Man/Superman #1 REVIEW: “Just bought this book, the first comic i’ve actually bought in a while, and yes the first story was very…” May 6, 21:12
Hornacek on Craig’s Critique: Amazing Spider-Man #27 (Legacy #991): “The Real Torment Was The Ending” or “MJ Lets Torment Go”: “@Aqu@: I read all of the 90s Venom mini-series and I don’t remember it ever being said there that Eddie…” May 5, 10:22


Kevin – this all started with Stella’s review of the musical. That’s when you opined “The Nazi skeleton made of bees.” Episode 125 of the podcast, aaaall the way back in January 2011. So yeah almost three years ago.
“Dressed to Kill” may be the funniest stand-up special I’ve ever seen. Cheers to anyone who can bring inspiration from Eddie into Spider-Man discussions!
And now I’m going back to celebrating with my loved ones. It’s *my* turn to wear the stinger now!
This was great! I’ve liked Izzard as an actor since seeing him in Mystery Men and lots of other roles. Never really watched his stand-up before but yeah he’s pretty much responsible for all this now!